Evernote to stop support for Blackberry 10 and Windows Phone this week

Popular note-taking app Evernote has announced that it will withdraw its apps from Blackberry 10 and Windows Phone app stores from next week, and cease to support existing apps on those platforms. 

Evernote, which is available for a number of other platforms, including Windows, MacOS, Chrome OS, Android, iOS, WebOS, WatchOS, PebbleOS and Android Wear, has confirmed that after Thursday 29 July it will no longer support the apps. 

The short notice has surprised some people, but the company claimed that it needed to target resources at more popular, growing platforms. 

"As a company, we're also trying to get better at staying focused. This means spending more of our time and resources on developing our core note-taking products, Evernote Web, Evernote for Android; Windows; Mac; and iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch," said Evernote justifying the news.

Evernote users who decide they want to change to a device that isn't Windows Phone or Blackberry 10 can rest easy as the notes they've already made will follow them because they are in the cloud, not in the devices.

The notetaking app is the latest in a long line of apps that were on Blackberry 10 and Windows Phone. Whatsapp left Blackberry last year, while Facebook Messenger doesn't work on Windows Phone, and there is only one Windows Phone available on the market right now. 

Blackberry has already shifted its focus from Blackberry 10 to Android, so it's understandable that app companies will follow suit.

Windows Phone is a different kettle of fish, however, and until we see the mythical Surface Phone, which is more than likely to run Windows 10 with Continuum, we're unlikely to see any more Windows Phone devices, although strictly speaking they'll be Windows 10.

For anyone who doesn't want to stop using Evernote, they will still be able to use the unsupported version for the moment. But they will be withdrawn from the relevant app stores this week and then won't have any further updates and could stop working, although there are no current plans for them to do that. 

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